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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1952
Page
6
Cloudy and cool tonight and tomorrow with lows 45 to 50 north and 50 to 55 south. Tomorrow's high 60 to 65. Precipitation since yesterday, barometer 29.53 at 1 am and 29.50 at 1 pm. Warmest city yesterday Tucson 104, coldest Marquette 49. Sunrise 4:22, sunset 7:41.
Alberta Elizabeth Stuessy Brod head and Aaron Ernest Norder 1419 12th avenue Rowena Rachel Christen Brook lyn township and Charles Frederick Jorgensen Jr Beloit May Mollrad Woodford and Eugene F DeVoe Freeport Ap plication made at Rock Island Ill Deaths Mrs Emma Prasse 85 Lena ml Arthur P Fehr 83 Lena Il Mrs Frank Sullivan 67 Janesville Robert Wooster 50 Janesville
St Clare Hospital lists surgical cases including Stanley Angell Beloit Mrs Henry Babler Jr route 5 Ronald Pagel 1720 5th St Mary Lou Figi route 1 Mrs Horace Hilker Milton Medical cases include Mrs James McDonald Gratiot Mrs Flora Gavey 1002 11th St Melchior Klassy Belleville Mrs Mable Ferguson Winlow Mrs Lena Olson South Wayne Fred Weibel 1910 12th St Tonsillectomy listed for James Walters Rockford Manda Jane Flannery Browntown Dismissals include R Fred Siegenthaler Stephen Burri Michael Connors Mrs George Bennett Mrs Albert Bidlingmaier Dennis Schroeder William Weiss Daryl Amans Mrs Sam Sherman Mrs Joseph Taylor and son Mrs Leo Hanson and son Mrs John Berger Mrs Henry Korn Mrs Kenneth Hester.
Chicago pit trading shows wheat down about a cent with nearby July at 2.292 and corn down roughly 4-1/2 cents to July at 1.778. Oats dip 4-7 cents, rye steady, soybeans mixed, lard flat to up 3 cents, with July prices noted for each contract.
Regents approve promotions of Orrin I. Berge and Palmer R. Kundert to full professor. Olga M. Hoesly named assistant professor of home economics and Charlotte R. Wood awarded emeritus status in English. Natives of Green County are among those honored.
Mr and Mrs James J mavon of 108 17th avenue left yesterday for Blanchardville to take over management of the United Telephone Co exchange. Mrs Hutton is a former operator here and he has been a plant crew member. They replace Mrs Alvin Blanchard who moved to Postville to operate the Postville store.
Funeral services for Jacob Burkhalter 90 of 1729 16th street were held at 2 p m today at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with Rev Paul C Kehle of St John s church officiating Burial took place in Greenwood cemetery He died at his home Thursday night A Monroe resident for 66 years he was an early Green County cheesemaker and a manufacturer of cheese factory supplies Pallbearers named John Augsburger Jake Burkhalter Elmer H Foulker Albert R Schmidt Arthur H Benkert and Frederick Burkhalter.
The Wisconsin State Grange will hold its annual convention here October 21 to 23. Members from local chapters are expected to attend, with program details and guest speakers to be announced.
Officials for the Green County Horse Show to be held August 2 and 3 were announced by show manager O L Hare. Ray Kettman of Topeka Kansas will judge the events and appears as a senior judge with the American Horse Show Association. Ronald Retz of Oshkosh will be ring steward and Jack Stofer of Reedsburg will be the announcer with Doc Lawson of Marshalltown organist. Five classes Saturday and Sunday afternoons, ten relasses on Saturday and Sunday nights. Entry blanks mailed in two weeks, entries close July 26. The annual horseman Gemamtlichkeits party will be Saturday night of fair week at Monroe Country Club. The fair association belongs to Wisconsin Horse Association and Northern Illinois Horse Show Association. many good horses expected.
The second annual Legion Fire event opened with Kiddies Day at the carnival and a street dance headlined by Wes Moe and his Band. A home talent show is planned for tonight at the park, with a Home Talent League game Verona vs Blanchardville at 1 P.M. tomorrow. Blanchardville must win to stay in the championship race. Free acts tomorrow include Ben Berger shows with the Strong Family acrobatics Judy Ryan baton twirling the Johnson Family monsters Brice Sidlinger double trampoline act Gerry Trio and Australian bull whip act. Tireworks will close the event Sunday night.
The morning brought a cool reception at 53.3 degrees before a daytime rise to 71. Yesterday was warmer by about 18 degrees. Rain fell across the state with southern Wisconsin getting the heaviest totals around .93 inches, Madison and Watertown reporting .85 and Janesville and Union Grove around .70. The forecast calls for cloudy skies tomorrow with no more rain and cooler readings in the 60s.
Mr and Mrs George L Geiger of 708 22nd Avenue report a cablegram from their son Pt Robert F Geiger confirming his safe arrival in Tokyo He departed the United States on June 5 illustrating a wartime Service Record brief listing a travel milestone and family notice
On Wednesdays, sessions run 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday lessons admit groups from Albany South Wayne Juda and nearby areas. Juda starts testing on the first Thursday from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. South Wayne tests 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Albany tests 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Groups will be sorted into proper classes on the first Thursday and then scheduled thereafter.
No Sunday services tomorrow in Monroe or Browntown Methodist churches due to Rev. Ralph K. Kofoed attending the annual conference in Chippewa Falls. Sunday school at Monroe Methodist will be 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Browntown services resume Sunday, June 2.
Local residents and visitors are listed with their towns and origins. Highlights include Melvin E. Kempel from Pearl City, Nancy Erickson from Tucson, and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Anderson from Freeport. Several groups and families travel or host, with fishing plans to Kenora and a long Wisconsin–Dakota trip noted. The weather at home in South Dakota is described as extremely dry.
Mr and Mrs John Zimmerman Mr and Mrs Roy Bissig and Wallace Feldt left for a week long fishing trip and vacation at Stone Lake in northern Wisconsin. Also noted are draft statistics showing 11.6 percent of registrants declared unfit for service through 1948 to April 30. South Dakota had the lowest unfit rate 6.5 percent while South Carolina posted the highest 21.4 percent. University of Wisconsin commencement attendance featured Mr and Mrs Arthur W Black the Vogts and their daughter Marilyn. The Vogts son Thomas L graduates in metallurgy and will begin work July 1 at Lake City. Northern vacation travelers included Mr and Mrs Lawrence G Marty Mr and Mrs Adam Schuler and Beth Ann.
July notes record a West Coast arrival after Far East duty, a Chicago visit by Mr and Mrs Matt Zentner to meet Dr and Mrs Harold Youngreen and family, Jane Louise Schroeder birth, Max Ray the cheese dealer’s arrival, graduation events at UW with Ralph Trickel and Donald Williams, and a Wisconsin vacation return from Squirrel Lake.
Senator McCarthy urged the Foreign Relations Committee to push diplomatic steps for the release of Associated Press journalist William Oatis and U. S. citizen Hvasta, jailed on spy charges in Czechoslovakia. Hvasta, a native Czech and naturalized American, faced a 10 year term after an initial three year sentence.
President Truman reportedly told friends he would be delighted to see a Democratic two ticket led by Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois with W. Averell Harriman in second place. While he has not publicly committed, Truman allies are quietly pushing the Stevenson Harriman option.
Atty Ted C Boyle former city alderman announced his candidacy for the Madison district Assembly seat on the Republican ticket. The seat is currently held by Mrs Ruth Doyle a Madison Democrat who will run for state treasurer on the Democratic ticket.
Police in Ubatuba captured 16 of 400 escapees who fled Anchiata Island Prison after fires. 15 guards and civilian employees were killed in the breakout, with authorities pursuing remaining fugitives.
Miss Joyce Eastman finishes schooling at The Cradle Evanston Illinois and returns home with Mrs Eastman Mrs Hasley Miss Tillie Johnson and Miss Betty Meier who traveled to Evanston the day prior Crandalls Have Reunion D A Crandall family at home at 1608 14th avenue Virginia is a nurse from Wellesley Mass Robert D home on leave from naval service Maxine a student at Ellisville junior college Miss Ruth Hildebrand from Greencastle Ind to join this weekend Robert fiance to Ruth Virginia and Maxine depart next Tuesday to their work
Nash Motors will close its Milwaukee and Kenosha Wisconsin plants Monday due to the steel strike. R A Devlieg vice president manufacturing Nash Kelv Inator Corp announced the decision yesterday. The article also notes the passenger pigeon and the great auk as extinct.
The United States asks the United Nations Security Council to sponsor an inquiry into Soviet germ warfare charges. The plan likely faces a Russian veto or refusals by Communist China and North Korea, with the Red Cross to conduct the inquiry, a point Moscow already rejects.
President Truman ordered Attorney General McGranery to determine possible legal action after the government sold the 70 million dollar luxury liner United States to U S Lines for 28 million dollars amid claims the subsidy was excessive. Secretary Sawyer delivered the liner despite objections from Comptroller General Warren.
Twenty police officers, including five captains, suspended for allegedly protecting Brooklyn boss bookie Harry Gross. Suspensions followed a mass lineup in which Gross identified the officers. If guilty, they face dismissal and pension loss.
Washington protest notes that a Senate subcommittee used $900 of government money to copy McCarthy's banker correspondence. Copies are reportedly handed to the opposition Wisconsin press with photographs serialized by the Capital Times in Madison. McCarthy asks why taxpayers pay to produce material used as campaign material by a left wing paper.
A Foreign Office spokesman said Japan recognizes Chiang Kai-Shek only as ruler of Formosa and the Pescadores Islands currently controlled by Nationalists. Earlier intimations he might recognize the Nanking government were rejected.
A light plane crashed three miles east of Goerke's Corners near Waukesha, killing two Missouri men Andre Bustanoby, 44, Ferguson, Irvin Goffstein, 38, St. Louis, instantly and Demaris Joan Way, Lemay, who died later at Waukesha Memorial Hospital.
Clifford J. Brainerd of Janesville was elected grand commander of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar of Wisconsin yesterday. Other officers named include O. D. St Clair of Madison as generalissimo and A. J. Olsen of Superior as captain.
Wisconsin cheese markets were steady to lower with large cheese receipts moving to storage on contract or assembler accounts. Curdled up cheese offerings remained ample for cheddars while Swiss prices slipped 1 to 11 cents. demand stayed fair to good, and non-fat dry milk and butter markets held steady at terminal points.
Wisconsin state cash balance fell to 3,385,400 as of June 1 per State Treasurer Warren Smith. May 1 balance was 5,794,458. Disbursements last month totaled 92,490,269 versus receipts of 90,081,211. Investments totaling 395,469,012 not included include 122,569,577 for teachers' retirement and 96,977,839 in the general fund.
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